There is an indefinable mysterious Power that
pervades everything. I feel it Power that pervades everything. I feel it
though I do not see it. It is this unseen Power which makes itself felt and
yet defies all proof, because it is so unlike all that I perceive through my
senses. It transcends the senses. But it is possible to reason out the
existence of God to a limited extent.

YI, 11 Oct. 1928

January 2

I do dimly perceive that whilst everything
around me is ever changing, ever dying, there is underlying all that change
a Living Power that is changeless, that holds all together, that creates,
dissolves, and recreates. That informing Power or Spirit is God. And since
nothing else I see merely through the senses can or will persist, He alone
is.

Ibid.

January 3

And is this Power benevolent or male volent? I
see it is purely benevolent. For I can see that in the midst of death life
persists, in the midest of untruth truth persists, in the midst of darkness
light persists. Hence I gather that God is Life, Truth, Light. He is Love,
He is the Supreme Good.

YI, 11 Oct. 1928

January 4

I cannot account for the existence of evil by
any rational method. To want to do so is to be co-equal with god. I am
therefore, humble enough to recognize evil as such; and I call God
long-suffering and patient precisely because He permits evil in the world.

Ibid.

January 5

I know that He has no evil in Him and yet if
there is evil, He is the author of it and yet if there is evil, He is the
author of it and yet untouched by it. I know too that I shall never know God
if I do not wrestle with and against evil even at the cost of life itself.

Ibid.

January 6

We do not know all the laws of God nor their
working. Knowledge of the tallest scientist or the greater spiritualist is
like a particle of dust. If God is not a personal being for me like my
earthly father, He is infinitely more. He rules me in the tiniest detail of
my life. I believe literally that not a leaf moves but by His will. Every
breath a leaf moves but by his will. Every breath I take depends upon His
sufferance.

H, 16 Feb. 1934

January 7

He and His Law are one. The Law is God.
Anything attributed to Him is not a mere attribute. He is the attribute. He
is Truth, Love and Law and a million other things that human ingenuity can
name.

Ibid

January 8

Perfection is the attribute of the Almighty,
and yet what a great democrat He is! What what a amount of wrong and humbug
He suffers on our part! He even suffers insignificant creatures of His to
question His very existence, though He is in every atom about us, around us
and within us. But, He has reserved to Himself the right of becoming
manifest to whom so ever He chooses. He is a Being without hands and other
organs, yet He can see him to whom He chooses to reveal Himself.

H, 14 Nov. 1936

January 9

TO me God is Truth and Love; God is ethics and
morality; God is fearlessness. God is the source of Light and Life and yet
He is above and beyond all these, God is conscience. He is even the atheism
of the atheist. For in His boundless love God permits the atheist to live.

YI, 5 March 1925

January 10

He is the searcher of hearts. He transcends
speech and reason. He knows us and our hearts better than we do over selves.
He does not take us at our word, for He knows that we often do mean it, some
knowingly and others unknowingly.

YI, 5 March 1925

January 11

He is a personal God to those who need His
personal presence. He is embodied to those who need His touch. He is the
purest essence. He simply is to those who have faith. He is all things to
all men. He is in us and yet above and beyond us.

Ibid.

January 12

He cannot cease to be because hideous
immoralities or inhuman brutalities are committed in His name. He is along
suffering. He is patient but He is also terrible. He is the most exacting
personage in the world and the world to come. He metes out the same measures
to us that we mete out to our neighbors men and brutes. With Him ignorance
is no excuse. And withal He is ever forgiving for He always gives us the
chance to repent.

Ibid.

January 13

He is the greatest democrat the world knows,
for He leaves us unfettered to make our own choice between evil and good. He
is the greatest tyrant ever known, for He often dashes the cup from our lips
and under the cover of free will leaves us a margin so wholly inadequate as
to provide only mirth for Himself at our expense. Therefore it is that
Hinduism calls it all His sport lila, or calls it all an illusion maya.

YI, 5 March 1925

January 14

God is not outside this earthly case of ours.
Therefore, exterior proof is not of much avail, if any at all. We must over
fail to perceive Him through the senses, because He is beyond them. We can
feel Him, if we will but withdraw ourselves from the senses. The divine
music is incessantly going on within ourselves, but the loud senses drown
the delicate music, which is unlike and infinitely superior to anything we
can perceive or hear with our senses.

H, 13 1936

January 15

God is the hardest taskmaster I have known on
this earth, and He tries you through and through. And when you find that
your faith is failing or your body is failing you, and you are sinking, He
comes to your assistance some how or other and proves to you that you must
not lose your faith and that He is always at your beck and call, but on His
terms, not on your terms. So I have found. I cannot really recall a single
instance when, at the eleventh hour, He has forsaken me.

SW, p. 1069

January 16

The divine guidance often comes when the
horizon is the blackest.

YI, 27 Aug. 1925

January 17

God helps when one feels oneself humbler than
the very dust under oneís feet. Only to the weak and helpless is divine
succor vouchsafed.

SSA, p.6

January18

Mankind is notoriously too sense to read the
signs that God sends from time to time. We require drums to be beaten into
our ears, before we would wake from our trance and hear the warning and se
that to lose oneself in all is the only way to find oneself

YI, 25 Aug. 1927

January 19

If you would ask Him to help you, you would go
to Him in all your nakedness, approach Him without reservations, also
without fear or doubts as to how He can help a fallen being like you. He who
has helped millions who have approached Him, is He going to desert you?

YI, 1 March 1929

January 20

Manís ultimate aim is the realization of god,
and all his activities, social, political, religious, have to be guided by
the ultimate aim of the vision of God. The immediate service of all human
beings becomes a necessary part of the endeavor, simply because the only way
to find God is to see Him in His creation and be one with it. This can only
be done by service of all. I am a part and parcel of the whole, and I cannot
find Him apart from the rest of humanity.

H, 29 Aug. 1936

January 21

God is a very hard taskmaster. He is never
satisfied with fireworks display. His mills although they grind surely and
incessantly grind excruciatingly slow and He is never satisfied with hasty
forfeitures of life. It is a sacrifice of the purest that He demands, and so
you and I have prayerfully to plod on, live out the life so long as it is
vouchsafed to us to live it.

YI, 22 Sept. 1927

January 22

God keeps an accurate record of all things
good and bad. There is no better accountant on earth.

H, 21 Sept. 1934

January 23

If God was a capricious person instead of
being changeless, unchangeable living law, He would in sheer indignation
wipe out those who in the name of religion deny Him and His Law.

YI, 11 July 1929

January 24

God tries His votaries through and through,
but never beyond endurance. He gives them strength enough to go through the
ordeal He prescribes for them.

YI, Feb. 1925

January 25

God to be God must the heart and transform it.
He must express Himself in every smallest act of His votary. This can only
be done through a definite realization more real than the five senses can
ever produce.

YI, 11 Oct. 1928

January 26

Where there is realization outside the senses
it is infallible. It is proved not by extraneous evidence but in the
transformed conduct and character of those who have felt the real presence
of god within. Such testimony is to be found in the experiences in all
countries and climes. To reject this evidence is to deny oneself.

Ibid.

January 27

But it is impossible for us to realize perfect
Truth so long as we are imprisoned in this mortal frame. We can only
visualize it in our imagination. We cannot, through the instrumentality of
this ephemeral body, see face to face Truth which is eternal. That is why in
the last resort we must depend on faith.

YM, Chap. II

January 28

No one can attain perfection while he is in
the body for the simple reason that the ideal state is impossible so long as
one has not completely overcome his ego, and ego cannot be wholly got rid of
so long as one is tied down by the shackles of the flesh.

YI, 20 Sept. 1928

January 29

Our existence as embodied beings is purely
momentary; what are a hundred years in eternity? But if we shatter the
chains of egotism, and melt into the ocean of humanity, we share its
dignity. To feel that we are something is to set up a barrier between God
and ourselves; to cease feelings that we are something is to become with
God.

YM, Chap. XII

January 30

A drop in the ocean partakes of the greatness
of its parent, although it is unconscious of it. But it is dried up as soon
as it enters upon an existence independent of the ocean. We do not
exaggerate when we say that life is a bubble.

January 31

As soon as we become one with the ocean in the
shape of God, there is no more rest for up, nor indeed do we need rest any
longer. Our very sleep is action. For we sleep with the thought of God in
our hearts. This restlessness constitutes true rest. This never-ceasing
agitation holds the key to peace ineffable. This supreme state of total
surrender is difficult to difficult to describe, but not beyond the bounds
of human experience. It has been attained by many dedicated souls, and may
be attained by ourselves as well.